Art or an April Fool?
The Art Newspaper has an interesting and disturbing report on its front page in its April edition. It concerns a well known contemporary artist, Gregor Schneider, who is a real person. And a woman called Roswitha Franziska Vandieken, who runs a clinic in Dusselfdorf, who may or may not exist. Apparently Gregor Schneider wants to create a piece of art which consists of a person dying - described by the newspaper as “the ultimate performance piece”. Not a video either, but a live person dying as an exhibit in a museum. And he has apparently approached Dr Vandieken for a suitable subject.
Plausible? Yes. So out there that it could be a hoax? Quite possibly, and as it hasn’t been in the Daily Mail yet, it may well be. In bad taste? Most definitely…
canvas said on March 29th, 2008 at 11:29 am:
Taste in the enemy of art. If you are familiar with the art of Gregor Schneider then you will understand that it’s not a hoax. It’s the role of an artist to challenge boundaries. I say, so what? Let artists do what they have to do. Art doesn’t always mean a pretty landscape at the RA Summer exhibition.
canvas said on March 29th, 2008 at 11:30 am:
Taste IS the enemy of art - please get an edit button